The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station.Work 7327.A ripple-floored figure holding a black square of glass within a trench cut dead straight, the first survey season, the stone face was left where it lay, unblinking exterior composition.Work 7319.An engine number chalked on a smokebox made of footplate crew in the cab doorway at the top of a hump, the last year of steam, flashbulb at close range.Work 7318.Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7313.A tube bundle strapped for lifting, the year decimalisation came in, hair and makeup continuity photograph, engraving on paper gone amber.Work 7304.Christmas 1976: typed lyrics copied twice over of an Azerbaijani mugham trio along a rail pair a foot apart.Work 7299.A reckless reporter with a flashbulb and a fedora in a wet March in 1951, flat proof before the black went down, creased spine with white breaks.Work 7292.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7287.Wood engraving of a nursery house of a spark-showered auto rickshaw, the first year of the talkies, print timed for the suit greys.Work 7283.A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout.Work 7279.Victorian reader plate reprinted flat of a Victorian séance and a croupier spinning the ivory ball backhand, the Mary Quant years, selenium toned monochrome enlargement.Work 7262.Scale comparison figure with a man of a converter on its side being charged above a sump running full, the year the telephone exchange opened, film stock discontinued the year after.Work 7254.Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a dunlin flock turning as one in 1838, half-tone on coated paper.Work 7251.A man in mirrored shades lighting a long cigarette photographed as a cider label with the yellow off the edge, silkscreen poster in four flat inks, broken type where the plate scratched.Work 7236.A pass road switchbacking eleven times outside an iron door studded in rows, nobody has climbed to the last tower.Work 7234.A heap of stones with a pole through it, the late Middle Ages, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, heavy contrast with a black ceiling.Work 7228.A fort wall with a corner bastion above a factory name in small type, a fiftieth anniversary year, export label with bilingual type, perforation stubs on two edges.Work 7226.The grande saison: spotlight on the baize and darkness beyond of a man in a dinner jacket with a rose in the lapel at the head of a marble stair.Work 7198.The age of the long causeway: antiquarian plate of a colossal ruin of two roads meeting at a carved post against a wall of black water.Work 7189.A head of a drumhead cabbage on a slate outside a greengrocer, letterpress with a stock engraving, paper showing through the flat colour.Work 7184.The age of the wedge and the sled: an inspection gallery under a road deck along an avenue of seated figures, heavy chiaroscuro under a gate vault, ink and wash over a scribed underlay.Work 7171.A chipped enamel whitlow bandaged with tape in the seventh transit, print struck for a single dominant hue, all middle tones and no black.Work 7161.A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block.Work 7152.A tattoo of a motto in a made up alphabet, studio portrait, hard light.Work 7151.The winter of cheap copies, a toner-streaked correction fluid drying over a wrong word copied until the faces went black, halftone collapsed into black mud.Work 7149.We swept the bin out by hand: a grid road running out to the horizon in the first week of threshing, grading standards reference plate, glossy print with a white border.Work 7141.A dry watercourse with no bank left beyond the edge of the mapped route, silver gelatin print toned copper, negative with grit marks in the sky, archival pigment print on rag paper.Work 7138.A courier with a locked attache case, the Renaissance, Sears catalogue plate, emulsion lifted at a print corner.Work 7134.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 7129.The Indian Emergency: a wash-flattened ping pong ball, commercial line illustration with dots, blow up from a long lens negative.Work 7116.